So here's our problem. We need to create almost 600 new mailboxes, all of which will only be connected to via POP from an application. These mailboxes also need to have the same password, per limitations of the application.

Right now we think we're stuck creating all the mailboxes as regular Exchange mailboxes and setting the passwords all the same. We're not thrilled with that idea because it created almost 600 AD accounts that have to be locked down, etc, etc.

What we wanted to do was give another mailbox Full Access rights to the POP accounts and use the creds for THAT mailbox to open the POP mailboxes. This way we don't have to manage all the extra passwords and we don't have the extra AD objects floating around.

Unfortunately testing has shown this to NOT work. While we can connect via MAPI to a shared mailbox we aren't able to connect via POP with anything other than the actual creds of the mailbox.

So, has anyone run in to a configuration where something like this was needed? And if so, what'd you do to get it done?

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What we wanted to do was give another mailbox Full Access rights to the POP accounts and use the creds for THAT mailbox to open the POP mailboxes. This way we don't have to manage all the extra passwords and we don't have the extra AD objects floating around.

But the POP mailboxes that this other account is trying to access would still need to be owned by someone, which means you would still need the AD accounts

So here's our problem. We need to create almost 600 new mailboxes, all of which will only be connected to via POP from an application. These mailboxes also need to have the same password, per limitations of the application.

If not other single user is going to login to these mailboxes, and it is purely for the application, why not create a single AD account and add 600 alias?

Not idea, silly even, but if you need that many and exchange allows it, would this work for your needs?

This option is only good if you never need to reply from individual accounts.

So here's our problem. We need to create almost 600 new mailboxes, all of which will only be connected to via POP from an application. These mailboxes also need to have the same password, per limitations of the application.

If not other single user is going to login to these mailboxes, and it is purely for the application, why not create a single AD account and add 600 alias?

Not idea, silly even, but if you need that many and exchange allows it, would this work for your needs?

This option is only good if you never need to reply from individual accounts.

The application that processes the emails requires that the data be segregated in to mailboxes.